Douglas DC-2-142

NC39165 - PH-AJU

The NC39165, DC-2 NC39165 with c/n 1404, sees daylight in the summer of 1935 as R2D-1 with BuNo 9993 for the United States Navy. She was delivered to NAS Anacostia on September 7, 1935. Being struck of charge by the USN in 1944 she was sold to her first civilian owner in April 1945. Altough NC39165 is painted like the orignal DC-2 Uiver she is not the real one.